PFE consultants track the latest trends and successes in benefit plan design and integrate these core features in consulting recommendations.  Clients value the fresh perspectives and analysis of plan design features including:

• Automatic Enrollment
• Balanced Fund Default Investments
• Core Strategy Investment Line-Up

BENEFITS COMMUNICATION

Beyond our technical capabilities, clients look to PFE to effectively communicate plan changes, educate employees on the decisions they must make, and most important of all, motivate employees to action.

Our assignments include development of proven success strategies and award-winning communication materials for events such as:

• Pension Plan Conversions - traditional to cash balance or pension equity, including pension choice


• Pension Plan Freeze or Termination - replacement plans, distribution options and investment decisions


• 401(k) Plan Changes - introducing new plan features and/or investments


• Automatic Enrollment - practical experience designing, implementing (including vendor negotiations), and communicating


• Retiree Health Care - implementing increases in cost sharing, capitation, grandfather provisions, and defined contribution


• Voluntary Early Retirement and Separation Programs - age and service credits, separation pay, transition benefits and personalized statements


• Plant Closures - transition benefits, retirement distribution options, unemployment compensation and structuring a job search


• Combating competitor recruitment - valuing compensation and benefits programs appropriately

Some of the communication vehicles we have developed include:

• Announcement letters, posters & postcards (print and electronic)
• Plan highlights brochures
• Annual enrollment brochures
• Investment Fund Fact Sheets
• Comprehensive benefit statements (print and electronic)
• Total retirement statements
• Targeted and personalized letters and statements
• Summary Plan Descriptions

PFE will explain your plan changes, enhancements, new benefits or any other information you want to share with employees in clear, concise language that speaks directly to them.

We can craft overall communications strategies and create multimedia campaigns that "de-mystify" complex concepts in simple, direct terms - using print, video and web-based applications.

Our hundreds of documented successes prove that PFE knows how to get your message across in a manner that's clear, consistent and - most important - effective.

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